Meanings
- not comparablelawNeeding no legislation to enforce it.
The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]
2003, Ruben E. Agpalo, Statutory Construction, page 467 - not comparablecomputingConsisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.
The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable.
2007, Bill Stackpole, Patrick Hanrion, Software Deployment, Updating, and Patching, page 3101 more example
Downloadable software can be provided in several different formats. Some automatically install themselves, but others require manual procedures. A downloadable file typically is set up as a self-installing executable file, self-executing zip file, […]
2005, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts: Comprehensive, page 156
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